a quote From the head honcho…
COVERT NINE is a digital marketing agency specializing in design, development, digital advertising, and content marketing. We’re also probably the first marketing company to tell you that digital marketing might not be a good investment for you or your company.
REALISTIC
OR
IDEALISTIC?
WE LIKE TO BE
A BIT OF BOTH
Before we started COVERT NINE, we worked at other agencies as well as internally on the client side for small and large public companies. In our experience, there are unique challenges presented at all levels of business, which is why we’ve spent the last 5 years perfecting our process so that its streamlined, efficient, and elicits the same level of quality you’d expect from an international ad agency. Most of our projects have limited budgets, hard deadlines, and limited resources, which is why you can always expect a balance of both idealism and realism when it comes to our approach to the process in executing your project or campaign.
We’re not just taking over management of your existing or non-existing fan club. We’re either teaching you, or helping you build the tools to help grow your audience organically, through techniques we’ve developed over the last 15 years. (Not stuff we read on a social media top 10 tip list)
It all starts with developing a unique brand identity, and ends with engaging content that speaks to your core values as a company. Don’t know the difference between CPM and CPC? We’ll demystify the acronyms (and BS) along the way if you want, and if not, we’ll just take care of business.
We’ve worked as outside consultants for a few weeks, or as trusted, long-term partners with people we’d consider friends more than clients.
Since we’re usually the guys you call when someone else has screwed you up real bad, or because you need some real help getting the word out about your awesome thing, let’s make sure we have a good idea of what the problem is first before we go in, white knight-style, and save the day with meaningless work. We do some analysis with every client we work with to determine what’s working and what isn’t working using existing analytics you have available. This includes finding out who your customers are, how they find you, and if they’re currently digesting your existing marketing messaging and content. We try to hone in on key performance indicators (KPIs) such as sales/revenue, conversions, form responses, or at the very least we’ll analyze how users interact with your site or content by looking at how many pages are visited by each user, how long user visits last, and bounce rates for your paid and organic traffic.
Don’t have any analytics?
We’ll do the best we can by researching some of your competitors to see what they’re doing, and see where we can improve. Better yet, we’ll help you identify the metrics you should be paying close attention to when it comes to your digital marketing campaigns if you don’t know already.
We love it when a good plan comes together. (Shout out to those of you who got the A-team reference.) This means we’re not a web promotions marketing chop shop–if that’s the way you want to work, then we wish you luck, and pity the fools who work that way.
We’re not going to jump onto the newest social media bandwagon. We’ll focus on where you need to be based after our initial analysis and create a strategy that builds real, measurable ROI. Sometimes, that might be helping your company build an internal team of your own, and sometimes it means working with us or a partner of ours that we trust. All of this starts with a good plan.
We don’t hire unpaid interns to do the work. We also never outsource coding. We do the work because building websites is hard. Building loyal audiences with digital marketing is just as hard. Sending out messages into the social media abyss with no tracking of successes/failures is why you fired your old “web guy” or agency. We’re not like that. We do it all and we do it here in house. How could a digital agency possibly advise a client on web design if they don’t actually know the guts that drives a website or your marketing messaging? That’s why when it comes to design, development, and digital, we do the work with professionals.
It’ll take us some time to nail down who you are, and who you’re trying to reach, but once we get going, you’ll have a sound marketing strategy that helps achieve your marketing goals. This part of the process is where we execute our marketing plan, which could be designing some new content, developing a website, content strategy, or possibly doing some sort of ongoing digital advertising to supplement a content marketing plan. Whatever the deliverable, you can rest assured that it’ll be the first step in the right direction for your brand or company.
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